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...special visit by Thailand's Queen Sirikit. But along the Thai-Burmese border?where insurgents, smugglers and drug dealers hold sway?little can be taken for granted. Suddenly, the Thai troops were under fire. The enemy: a unit of the United Wa State Army, a tribal force from Burma. Allied with the government in Rangoon and notorious for its dominance of the narcotics trade, the tribal army frequently sends its drug caravans slithering through Thai territory. When the four-hour firefight was over, the Wa had retreated, but not before leaving one Thai soldier dead. Queen Sirikit was advised...
...world's spotlight remains on the face-off at the India-Pakistan border. But the 2,100-kilometer Thai-Burmese frontier is almost as tense?even without the shadow of a nuclear war. The clashes have plunged relations between Bangkok and Rangoon to their lowest point in years. Burma's junta has banned visits by Thai officials, expelled Thai workers and closed border crossings, while Thai army officers have accused Rangoon of warmongering...
There exists, in the minds of many, the Golden Triangle of popular mythology: a wild and untamed land where Thailand, Laos and Burma collide, full of wizened tribesmen reclining with opium pipes in the shadow of hills painted purple with poppies. It's a place you might still find should you have the time, funds and gumption to cross the muddy sweep of the Mekong into Burma or Laos. But if, like most tourists, you opt to view this famous confluence of three nations from Thailand's northernmost province of Chiang Rai, you might wish to check some of your...
...BURMA Free to Talk Government officials said they would resume talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who made her first public appearance after 19 months of house arrest. But military intelligence chief Kyaw Win said details of the talks would remain secret, and international labor and human-rights groups warned that the release of Suu Kyi did not herald the country's imminent return to democracy...
...however, Than Shwe is a military man, and that's where his chief loyalty lies. He still firmly believes the army is best suited to rule Burma and its fractious ethnic groups. Even some diplomats agree a transition to a freer society will have to be slow and gradual as the country has no democratic institutions. But the struggle to build them may well begin with this first thaw between two once implacable foes?and when Aung San Suu Kyi takes those first steps toward freedom...